The author dismissed her famous book — the subject of a new film hitting theaters Christmas Day — as 'dull' and 'moral pap for the young.'
. He was also a teacher who was disgraced after publishing a book with ideas about education that were a little too innovative.And he was prone to depression. Once he was fired from his school, he didn’t work again for years. An attempt to start a utopian community failed utterly, deepening his depression, and his wife and daughters were forced to take any work they could to keep the family afloat.
Yet her dutiful eldest sister Anna became Meg; headstrong Louisa became Jo; artistic sister May became Amy; and sweet sister Lizzie, who had died of scarlet fever at 22, became doomed Beth. Marmee was Marmee, and her dad, in reality emotionally absent because of his depression, became physically absent because of his heroic service in the Civil War.Alcott plowed through writing the book in two months.
“Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman’s life,” she complained in her journal. “IJust like the other characters in “Little Women,” there had been a real-life Laurie to Alcott’s Jo. His name was Laddie, and he was a Polish man 10 years her junior with whom she had carried on a flirtation during a trip to Europe. In the end though, Alcott chose to stick with her vow of “spinsterhood” — a decision her fans seemed to unintentionally condemn.
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